THE TIMES Research BOOK OF THE ENTIRE YEAR

A Sunday Occasions Bestseller

‘Thrilling . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.’ The Sunday Times

66 million years back the dinosaurs were wiped from the facial skin of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, among the leading researchers of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is definitely piecing together the complete story of the way the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years.

The world of the about The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of the Lost World dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for many years – from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, as well as the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it incorrect? In The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs, top dinosaur professional Brusatte, tells the real tale of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet. Using the fossil clues that have been collected using state from the art technology, Brusatte follows these magnificent creatures from their origins in the first Triassic period, through the Jurassic period with their last days in the Cretaceous as well as the legacy that they left out.

Along the way, Brusatte introduces us to modern day dinosaur hunters and provides an insight into what it’s prefer to be a paleontologist. The Rise and Fall from the Dinosaurs is full of fascinating accounts of a few of his personal discoveries, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex, and feathered raptor dinosaurs preserved in lava from China.

At a time when Homo sapiens has existed for less than 200,000 years and we are already talking about planetary extinction, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a timely reminder of what humans can learn from the magnificent creatures who ruled the planet earth before us.